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domination and -- corporate domination of government and government secrecy. that was warren's tradition in the first half of the 20th century, and by the time he was done with his landmark work on the court, it was the nation's tradition as well. there are two more fields that i'd like to mention more briefly that, in which warren's life in california profoundly affected the positions he would take as chief justice. in one area he carried the court to all of our great benefit, and in the other he failed to do so, and it represents the rare instance where i would argue that we are better off for warren's inability to bring the court. as i mentioned, warren had spent much of his life as a prosecutor, and in a particular time and place. he began his life prosecuting subversives, bootlegers and gambles along with corrupt county supervisors and sheriffs. early in his life asal pee da d. a, he put away a corrupt sheriff who also happened to be a member of the ku klux klan and broke up a corruption ring in the oakland/alameda area that was giving away paving contrac
domination and -- corporate domination of government and government secrecy. that was warren's tradition in the first half of the 20th century, and by the time he was done with his landmark work on the court, it was the nation's tradition as well. there are two more fields that i'd like to mention more briefly that, in which warren's life in california profoundly affected the positions he would take as chief justice. in one area he carried the court to all of our great benefit, and in the other...
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so they decided to form an organization and then the los angeles government was going to put a trash burner right in front of the school where the kids were going and they said no way. so they started to march. there will several hundred of them that were marching. okay, the trash did not come. one after another in these incidents the mothers got together and they said let's do it. and you know, they marched, they cleaned up the area where they lived. they did wonderful things. these were hispanic women. we don't have a very good community of hispanic women. why, i do not know. >> host: i think the different populations may have their prejudices, but -- >> guest: these were wonderful women. >> host: populations may have prejudices against other groups of people and immigrants have a hard time in this country. >> guest: i'm an immigrant. everyone is an immigrant. >> host: where did you come from? >> guest: i came from northern italy. >> host: when you come to this country and you have this experience dealing with the latina women of los angeles, your thoughts? >> guest: my thoughts ar
so they decided to form an organization and then the los angeles government was going to put a trash burner right in front of the school where the kids were going and they said no way. so they started to march. there will several hundred of them that were marching. okay, the trash did not come. one after another in these incidents the mothers got together and they said let's do it. and you know, they marched, they cleaned up the area where they lived. they did wonderful things. these were...
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government has gotten smaller. the private sector may not have done fine as obama said the other day but it is doing better than the public sector. instead, there are funny moments in this book where in the fall of 2009 the same people who did the rubber bernstein report that was so stupid but chris the roemer and jared bernstein were thinking about can we do a wta type of thing. something like that in the act will stimulus where the data wage subsidy program where states and nonprofits could hire people and the feds, welfare to work program which is kind of ironic given what we are hearing now and even haley barbour, republican governor of mississippi loved it and it was -- it created 250,000 jobs at $5,000 for job. an incredibly successful program. christine roemer started calling government agencies to say if we can do unlimited money how many people could you hired in the next year? we could hire a lot. 20,000. the roosevelt administration could hire four million people in the winter of 1934 and jared bernstein
government has gotten smaller. the private sector may not have done fine as obama said the other day but it is doing better than the public sector. instead, there are funny moments in this book where in the fall of 2009 the same people who did the rubber bernstein report that was so stupid but chris the roemer and jared bernstein were thinking about can we do a wta type of thing. something like that in the act will stimulus where the data wage subsidy program where states and nonprofits could...
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reform of government is coming. we will learn from past mistakes in this administration, and other administrations, and we're going to forge ahead with putting government back on the side of the people and making sure country comes first, putting obsessive partisanship aside. that's what john mccain has been now for in all these years he has been a maverick. he has ruffled feathers, but i'm no senator biden, you have respected him for that and the respect you for acknowledging that. but changes coming. biden: past is prologue. the issue is how different is john mccain policy going to be to george bush's? i haven't heard anything yet. i haven't heard how his policy can be different on iran than george bush's. i haven't heard how his policy we different was israel than george bush's. i have heard how his policy afghanistan is going to be different than george bush's. i haven't heard how his policy in pakistan is going to be different. it may be but so far it is the same as george bush's. and you know where this policy
reform of government is coming. we will learn from past mistakes in this administration, and other administrations, and we're going to forge ahead with putting government back on the side of the people and making sure country comes first, putting obsessive partisanship aside. that's what john mccain has been now for in all these years he has been a maverick. he has ruffled feathers, but i'm no senator biden, you have respected him for that and the respect you for acknowledging that. but changes...
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not the powers should be mainly towards the national government, the state governments? i've read lots of things about whether or not the counties even the way they're set up are set up in a way to give perverse incentives to things. >> right. i think that would be a central question in any constitutional convention. i started teaching courses at ut law school on federalism, and one of the really interesting things about the united states constitution is that it says astonishingly little about the so-called reserve powers of the states. you look at constitutions around the world and that are pro-federalismand you discover that states or provinces in germany are given exclusive authority over language, over religion, over education, over environment, you know, fill in the blank. now, again, this is something that we could debate about at great length, but i assume that if you like federalism defined as some degree of subnational autonomy where people can make decisions rell thetively free -- relatively free of national override, then our constitution does a dreadful job i
not the powers should be mainly towards the national government, the state governments? i've read lots of things about whether or not the counties even the way they're set up are set up in a way to give perverse incentives to things. >> right. i think that would be a central question in any constitutional convention. i started teaching courses at ut law school on federalism, and one of the really interesting things about the united states constitution is that it says astonishingly little...
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the 5 story building still used by government offices today where the pension office of the department of interior was first located and then move to the patent office building. you know it as the grant structure that houses two smithsonian museums. the dolley madison house where jennings live with his mistress until he became free in 1847, that also is there today. paul jennings would have been on the cellar level. after the burning of the white house, the madison white house never lived in the white house again. the temporary white house became the octagon. the octagon is another of the buildings still in washington. it was there that james madison signed the treaty again that ended the war of 1812 and jennings writes that on that occasion everyone in the household was thrilled to hear that news had finally arrived. jennings said he played the president's march on the violin. 7s were instructed to pour wine literally including for themselves and jennings rights that the french steward was drunk for two days. never he said was there such an exciting time in washington. and then there
the 5 story building still used by government offices today where the pension office of the department of interior was first located and then move to the patent office building. you know it as the grant structure that houses two smithsonian museums. the dolley madison house where jennings live with his mistress until he became free in 1847, that also is there today. paul jennings would have been on the cellar level. after the burning of the white house, the madison white house never lived in...